Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another salute to the prescient Sinclair Lewis! Arrowsmith, published in 1925, describes Dr. Holabird's iatrocracy about as follows: ". . . would rule, coordinate, standardize and make useful the whole world of intelligence, from trousers-designing to poetry...
...grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
...pledged by the Brothers Van Sweringen for loans and accumulated interest now amounting to $50,000,000. Among the securities which the House of Morgan and allied banks took over when the loan fell due last May was stock-control of the holding companies through which the Van Sweringens rule virtually all their vast possessions. On the block will go about 50% of the common stock of Allegheny Corp., representing all but one of the Van Sweringen railroads, Wheeling & Lake Erie, whose stock is pledged with RFC. The man who owns that block of Alleghany stock can hire & fire...
...Harvard-Yale combine had its chance for victory when Green won the 120-yard hurdles, but the Harvard captain-elect was disqualified for having knocked over four hurdles. Track rules in the United States have no such clause, but the English rule is that a competitor shall be disqualified if he knocks over more than two hurdles. Pilbrow of Oxford was awarded first...
...receiving the blows they do is painful and annoying to flesh and blood," he expressed an attitude toward pugilism that has been held by most of the writing men since his day. The 37 authors whose fragmentary observations are included in Boxing in Art and Literature seem as a rule to approach it with a strange air of mingled respect and disdain, as if striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe in connection with every battle. Beginning with Homer and ending with Ernest Hemingway, Boxing in Art and Literature includes Hazlitt's famed...